For TTS/SAPI, use a voice throttle [a way for the user to speed up speech and filter how much speech s/he gets].

People who are use to listening to tts want to speed it up, and experienced users need less speech once the are familiar with the game interface.

2. Add captions.

Captioning not just videos and spoken dialogue, but also for important sounds. Ex: duck walks across screen while quacking; caption should read "Quack."

3. Single most important step for any user with a mobility impairment: don't chord, don't use more than one key to do an action.

Why? Because their may be an accomadation where the person can't press multiple keys.

[this is also true of blind users who may have to memorize keyboard commands].

Why did we decide to make accessible games?

Discussion of gamers with disabilities being under-served b mainstream games whil also representing a large demographic, and growing.

Also, allows game developers to feel good about themselves.

We rate our games accordingt to the accomadation we use; not ever game can be made accessibilit to all users, and

if a game's very nature is not going to work with certain accomadations we don't want to change the nature of the game.

There are two types of text- to-speech : self-voiceing and screen readers [a third part software program which blind and visually-impaired users have installed on their computers already, tpically Jaws or WindowEes for Windows, though there are a few Mac and Linux options, not as popular].

In considering what should be spoken aloud, you need to make sure you aren't also speaking things that are not available on the screen, such as disabled controls.

You need to speek things that convey context.

You need to speak that you are in the d box [in other words, you need to sa where the focus is].

People who use voice control [speech-to-text] want to say words rather than hot keys [words are easier to remember].

That's something we learned to late and can't retro-fit.

Dragon Naturally Speaking [the most widely-used voice program] allows ppl to speak and control the activity of the games.

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